Been using Sysinternals utilities since Windows 98! Here's a tip. As you noted some utilities require Admin level security. Others, notably Autoruns, may not require or ask for Admin level security when run, but to perform an operation - like Jump To (Registry) Entry in Autoruns - require Admin level to operate. Rather than having to Right Click on the app and select Run As Administrator, right click on the file (app) and select Properties, select the Compatibility tab and at the bottom click the [Change Settings for All Users] button. In the window that pops up, check the "Run this program as an Administrator" box and click OK/OK. Now you'll still get asked if you want to give the app permission to run (always), but you won't have to right click and select the Run As Admin any more!
SysInternals author Mark Russinovich is one of the true major contributors to the software world, along with other greats like Peter Norton, Phil Katz RIP, Nick Bradbury etc. I used SI for 15-20 years from well before Microsoft acquired it and Mark-the utilities are top class and rock solid. I don't use them anymore, as Windows today is far ahead of where it was in the 90s and 00s. But ZoomIt does look interesting :)
@@connclissmann6514 Of course :) There are dozens more at least-I only mentioned a few whose work benefited me considerably. Btw I'm fairly sure Steve Gibson was the SpinRite guy :)
way back then, I rescued several XT type machines by running Spinrite, the machines were running slowly and the users were going to get rid of them but I run Spinrite on them overnight and tell them to reboot, and all those bad sectors were returned to the system by a low level format of each block. In those days the heads didn’t park and turning off the PC might write random crap at that location. After years the hard disk would have lots of bad sectors.
@@connclissmann6514 Dan Briklin and VisiCalc co-author Bob Frankston rarely get a mention these days, but they created what was probably the first desktop ‘killer application’; the reason many people bought PCs in those days. I was lucky enough to be able to teach myself VisiCalc on a TRS-80 when I was a young teenager in the UK (early 80s), and it set me up for a successful life in the ‘computer business’. I encourage visiting Dan’s website (it’s easy to find); there’s a great history of VisiCalc there.
The stuff that has come from Mark Russinovich and his Sysinternal's team is outstanding and remarkable: There were times when they knew more about the internal workings of Microsofts file system and stuff than the people at Microsoft themselves. I was not the slightest bit surprised when Microsoft acquired them. It has always seemed like they have been able to, and allowed to, do what they are best at.
Thank you so much. Our IT department and I have been trying to locate the source of a problem with my computer. I have never seen them use these tools to find it, so thanks so much for sharing. I am going too try these tools out. The screen annotation tool is awesome, and something I can really use while teaching. I always learn a bunch from you!
I love these tools and there are so many that I have never even touched upon in the last 23 years of using this suite! Mark Russinovich and team were true Windows pioneers and helped me learn a lot of the innards of Windows.
BGInfo used on all PCs around here. Can save a lot of time and indicates last reboot time. Ready to trim the options and make the font smaller, to keep it in the top right corner.
Thanks for the information! PSExec and Process Explorer are two that I use often. PowerToys is also one of my go-to utilities and it's still available today. I still have my 1996 Sony PCV-70 166 MHz Pentium. It came with Windows 95a. I asked the Circuit City salesperson about the single USB port, and she said that it was new technology that is not yet enabled. Upgrading to Windows 95b enabled it and I added a ZIP drive. I think Windows 2000 was the last OS running on it. I skipped Windows ME (that was a terrible OS)
I use ZoomIt all the time when I present training sessions. I did not know about SysInternals but installed Zoomit separately. It is an extremely useful tool when students request me to enlarge a portion of the screen, like the formula bar in Excel, so that they can see the function/formula in more detail.
If you are watching someone's presentation in Teams, I think holding Ctrl and using the scroll wheel allows you to zoom in and out. You can also then drag to other parts of the presentation area.
You will soon be able to talk about "PC Manager" by Microsoft, which is in beta right now, its a free utility with similar features as CCLeaner (I stopped using it) for Windows 10 and 11. PS: 00:35 That is the Commodore Amiga 1000, my 2nd computer after the Commodore 64. Good times :)
Autologon is a must for me for my home computer. when i hire someone for IT support job i always ask "tell me about any three sysinternal tools that you use". many of them scratch heads as nowadays true IT professionals are very hard to find. using them for last 18 years, they are still relevant for example you don't use use built-in tools of a compromised system you use sysinternals. Even in your comments i see people not understanding their importance.
I used to use Sysinternals a lot, but now I rarely use it because most of the things I used to use regularly have either become part of Windows or Power Toys.. for example, checking open files is now a right-click away with Power Toys and a lot of the tools I used to use in Zoomit are now built in to Teams. There are still some use cases for Sysinternals but mostly for developers, I think.
@@jonasfermefors any that you recommend?- what I use zoomit for is the arrows squares/drawing - I haven’t come across any that are native to Teams, would love to hear of one that is.
I like the Powerblock utility. Once toggled on it prevents the entire computer from being turned on at all! Very useful when you have small children or a house sitter, etc.
Process Explorer helped me to solve a little mystery with my application at a customer computer. It requires a couple of dll's that usually are registered in GAC. Despite all needed dll's were there (I mean particular versions), application was still throwing exception. Process Explorer was actually my last resort help. What I found thanks to it, was that system provided an old dll version to the application because someone had copied an old version one of dll's into c:\windows\system32 which should never be there. Even correct dll version existed in my application folder and in GAC, the old one was being called.
Thanks Leila for yet again a super useful video! You are helping us in so many ways, really appreciate! My favorite tool is Zoomit, it has been very helpful during meetings and trainings for sure! 👍
Great video. I've used Sysinternals since long before MS acquired them. Autoruns and ProcMon have always been fantastic tools. Mark Russinovich is definitely a genius. I've not looked at them in while, but I'll download the full suite and look through it again. I love the manual side to these tools, rather than relying on blackbox utilities to address issues.
Before I retired, we were using BGInfo for years on an enterprise basis, so that when a user called the Help Desk, we'd know the machine name they were calling about. I've used other Sysinternals utilities over the years personally. They can look overwhelming, but are great tools worth learning and using for anyone that can do their own troubleshooting.
But using those tools on a company pc is risky because as we all know using 3rd party software that came over usb or so is all a company need to kick your a*s out the door
@@dummyload7803 BGInfo had been recommended by our lead citrix engineer. He got senior technical management to sign of on it. He got it to work on citrix virtual sessions.
for me, turning on the desktop, using the browser, printer and some other software without crashing is a feat. I always thought that Windows loaded too much unnecessary stuff. I was wrong... there are many more unnecessary things! Thanks for the video!
Windows 11 has zoom built in. Press Window Key and the + key to zoom in. Then + and - to zoom in and out. I've been using Sysinternals since the 90s. Mark Russinovich was a windows God to young system engineer me back then.
Hi Leila, I like sysinternals too, and I am a longterm user. My favourite utility is ShareX which does screen capture - image, GIFs and OCR. I have a multibutton mouse and one mode is permanently set to ShareX so when watching something, I can quickly capture it.
I have Xero Linux installed on an old PC with an 8 core processor and 8 gigs of ram... I did one update after I first installed the operating system... That computer is not only fast, it's never produced one single error either in 6 months.. Xero Linux is FREE and so are all the programs and apps... Run this from a flash drive or install a virtual machine and run it as a guest operating system inside of Windows...
OMG ... GULP!!! ... 😮😮😮 ... Utilities??? ... an instant migraine! ... about two minutes into this video I was nauseous and dizzy ... I got the same feeling Indiana Jones did in 'Raiders of the Lost Arc' when he was lowered into the snake pit ... 😣😣😣 ... "Why did it have to be 'Utilities'???" But I have full faith in Prof Leila ... and her enthusiasm about 'Sysinternals' will give me courage as I get lowered into the 'Utilities Pit' (my palms are already sweaty). But once there I will quite likely will find a nugget to use ... and then another ... and another. Which is why 'Thursdays With Leila' is so important. Thank you ... thank you ... thank you .... 😍😍😍
Oh, the snake pit. Sorry for bringing up such bad feelings 😊 But I'm told, sometimes we have to get out of our comfort zone. So thank you for accompanying me down this path 🙏
I have shared the vedio to my family members for try. They will easily understand tbe procedures than me. After getting their report, I have to try. OK. Thank you very much for this efforts.
Hello Leila, Thank You for the refresher video. I have been using some of the tools since the early releases. What tool do you use to get the Mouse to right-click the icon on the video to demonstrate the tutorial?
I believe that it is high time someone said something very obvious but somehow avoided it. I am a member of the Baby Boomer generation, and we were thought to acknowledge the beauty around us and to have the freedom to vocalize it. So here goes. Dear Leila, your videos are not only interesting and educational, but your beauty makes them even more attractive to watch. Cheers!
YEARS ago I think I was part of a group using the beta version of Autoruns. It was handy for a quicker boot time and identifying unintentional/ poorly prioritised boot programs. It worked well but after the trial access was limited, then dropped off completely. Now that I’m older Zoomit looks just as useful. Thanks!
Hello, im always following your videos, but just a little sugestion if you mind, can you create a video that give us a tips about microsoft default apps that actually not important and safe to uninstall without affecting the whole system, because i think there are to many apps which is i'm not sure if it is important or not. Just sharing 🤗🤗
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Been using Sysinternals utilities since Windows 98! Here's a tip. As you noted some utilities require Admin level security. Others, notably Autoruns, may not require or ask for Admin level security when run, but to perform an operation - like Jump To (Registry) Entry in Autoruns - require Admin level to operate. Rather than having to Right Click on the app and select Run As Administrator, right click on the file (app) and select Properties, select the Compatibility tab and at the bottom click the [Change Settings for All Users] button. In the window that pops up, check the "Run this program as an Administrator" box and click OK/OK. Now you'll still get asked if you want to give the app permission to run (always), but you won't have to right click and select the Run As Admin any more!
Thanks for the tip!
Leila, I may not be able to watch every one of your videos but when I do, you are a blessing.
SysInternals author Mark Russinovich is one of the true major contributors to the software world, along with other greats like Peter Norton, Phil Katz RIP, Nick Bradbury etc. I used SI for 15-20 years from well before Microsoft acquired it and Mark-the utilities are top class and rock solid.
I don't use them anymore, as Windows today is far ahead of where it was in the 90s and 00s. But ZoomIt does look interesting :)
Agreed! May I add Dan Briklin to your list? From VisiCalc to Spinrite and beyond...
@@connclissmann6514 Of course :) There are dozens more at least-I only mentioned a few whose work benefited me considerably. Btw I'm fairly sure Steve Gibson was the SpinRite guy :)
@@silversolver7809 Greetings fellow old guys!
way back then, I rescued several XT type machines by running Spinrite, the machines were running slowly and the users were going to get rid of them but I run Spinrite on them overnight and tell them to reboot, and all those bad sectors were returned to the system by a low level format of each block.
In those days the heads didn’t park and turning off the PC might write random crap at that location. After years the hard disk would have lots of bad sectors.
@@connclissmann6514 Dan Briklin and VisiCalc co-author Bob Frankston rarely get a mention these days, but they created what was probably the first desktop ‘killer application’; the reason many people bought PCs in those days. I was lucky enough to be able to teach myself VisiCalc on a TRS-80 when I was a young teenager in the UK (early 80s), and it set me up for a successful life in the ‘computer business’. I encourage visiting Dan’s website (it’s easy to find); there’s a great history of VisiCalc there.
The stuff that has come from Mark Russinovich and his Sysinternal's team is outstanding and remarkable: There were times when they knew more about the internal workings of Microsofts file system and stuff than the people at Microsoft themselves. I was not the slightest bit surprised when Microsoft acquired them. It has always seemed like they have been able to, and allowed to, do what they are best at.
Thank you so much. Our IT department and I have been trying to locate the source of a problem with my computer. I have never seen them use these tools to find it, so thanks so much for sharing. I am going too try these tools out. The screen annotation tool is awesome, and something I can really use while teaching. I always learn a bunch from you!
I love these tools and there are so many that I have never even touched upon in the last 23 years of using this suite! Mark Russinovich and team were true Windows pioneers and helped me learn a lot of the innards of Windows.
👍
My favorite is psexec. I often fall back to it when Microsoft's newer remote admin tools fail. I use it to execute commands on remote computers.
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That's right! It's been around since 1996. I've been using it since 1996. I came online in 1995 as a Microsoft Professional at the age of 38.
BGInfo used on all PCs around here. Can save a lot of time and indicates last reboot time. Ready to trim the options and make the font smaller, to keep it in the top right corner.
Thanks for the information! PSExec and Process Explorer are two that I use often. PowerToys is also one of my go-to utilities and it's still available today. I still have my 1996 Sony PCV-70 166 MHz Pentium. It came with Windows 95a. I asked the Circuit City salesperson about the single USB port, and she said that it was new technology that is not yet enabled. Upgrading to Windows 95b enabled it and I added a ZIP drive. I think Windows 2000 was the last OS running on it. I skipped Windows ME (that was a terrible OS)
I use ZoomIt all the time when I present training sessions. I did not know about SysInternals but installed Zoomit separately. It is an extremely useful tool when students request me to enlarge a portion of the screen, like the formula bar in Excel, so that they can see the function/formula in more detail.
Thanks for sharing!
If you are watching someone's presentation in Teams, I think holding Ctrl and using the scroll wheel allows you to zoom in and out. You can also then drag to other parts of the presentation area.
*Been using Sysinternals for a while. Phenomenal programs for us deep IT troubleshooters.*
My favorite tool is Autoruns. That is helping too much in speeding up my Windows. Thank you for the tutorial
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thanks for sharing all those key combinations for using zoomit.
Kudos for the clarity of presentation.
You will soon be able to talk about "PC Manager" by Microsoft, which is in beta right now, its a free utility with similar features as CCLeaner (I stopped using it) for Windows 10 and 11. PS: 00:35 That is the Commodore Amiga 1000, my 2nd computer after the Commodore 64. Good times :)
Wow, that's great news. Microsoft should have done it years back. Or maybe make an OS that doesn't need CCleaner equivalent! Call me crazy.
Autologon is a must for me for my home computer.
when i hire someone for IT support job i always ask "tell me about any three sysinternal tools that you use". many of them scratch heads as nowadays true IT professionals are very hard to find. using them for last 18 years, they are still relevant for example you don't use
use built-in tools of a compromised system you use sysinternals.
Even in your comments i see people not understanding their importance.
Wow, this is powerful. Thank you Leila!
Thank you didn’t know about this!
I have used the suite over the years, absolutely needed
These Is The Best Channle In My Life Thanks 😁
I used to use Sysinternals a lot, but now I rarely use it because most of the things I used to use regularly have either become part of Windows or Power Toys.. for example, checking open files is now a right-click away with Power Toys and a lot of the tools I used to use in Zoomit are now built in to Teams. There are still some use cases for Sysinternals but mostly for developers, I think.
Zoomit is built into teams?!
Can we use zoomit in teams??
@@JBB685 No, but a lot of drawing tools are available.. not the timer or zooming - but personally I don't use those.
@@martyc5674 No, but a lot of drawing tools are available.. not the timer or zooming - but personally I don't use those.
@@jonasfermefors any that you recommend?- what I use zoomit for is the arrows squares/drawing - I haven’t come across any that are native to Teams, would love to hear of one that is.
I like the Powerblock utility. Once toggled on it prevents the entire computer from being turned on at all! Very useful when you have small children or a house sitter, etc.
Where's that?
Wait, if the computer can't be turned on, how do you toggle this off???
There’s a key combination: CTRL-Shift-F12 that you hold down while pressing the reset button.
Thanks for this valuable video, Watching from Sri Lanka, Sharing knowledge is highly appreciated.
With Sysinternals and PowerToys, you can really have some fun,
Great video. I use process explorer daily. Now need to check out the others . Thanks!
Process Explorer helped me to solve a little mystery with my application at a customer computer. It requires a couple of dll's that usually are registered in GAC. Despite all needed dll's were there (I mean particular versions), application was still throwing exception. Process Explorer was actually my last resort help. What I found thanks to it, was that system provided an old dll version to the application because someone had copied an old version one of dll's into c:\windows\system32 which should never be there. Even correct dll version existed in my application folder and in GAC, the old one was being called.
Thanks for sharing your use case!
@@LeilaGharaniMy pleasure! :)
ZoomIT is definitely my favorite tool. Thank you for the great video, Leila!
Wow, thanks Leila! I had never heard of this. I've used Power Toys, but never knew of this.
In fact SysInternals remain a MUST HAVE...
Great video! I will proably start using zoomit right away. It has several tools i have been looking for. Negative commentors not worth the air.
Thanks Leila for yet again a super useful video! You are helping us in so many ways, really appreciate! My favorite tool is Zoomit, it has been very helpful during meetings and trainings for sure! 👍
Thanks for sharing, Vijay!!
I can get most of ZoomIt functions except drawing. Can you help why my drawing does not work despite pressing hold shift, hold control, hold tab ….?
10:56 For this task, I like the program LockHunter!
Wonderful. Thanks
ZoomIt is my favorite. Thank you!
You are an extraordinary instructor.
Great video. I've used Sysinternals since long before MS acquired them. Autoruns and ProcMon have always been fantastic tools. Mark Russinovich is definitely a genius. I've not looked at them in while, but I'll download the full suite and look through it again. I love the manual side to these tools, rather than relying on blackbox utilities to address issues.
Restart is my favorite. lol Thank you, keep it sincere and I'll continue to watch.
Very useful tools as perfect intro , Thank you .
In my IT study they only gave me things that are building into windows like "event viewer". This is something i wanna check out though
Excellent presentation and informative!!!
I've been using this since it came out in the 90s. Great stuff.
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Thank you very much indeed, you outdid yourself today.........Great utility apprauch.
Excellent! Many thanks Leila! 🙏
Merci pour les explications..très claires même pour un francophone..
Happy to hear that!
Before I retired, we were using BGInfo for years on an enterprise basis, so that when a user called the Help Desk, we'd know the machine name they were calling about. I've used other Sysinternals utilities over the years personally. They can look overwhelming, but are great tools worth learning and using for anyone that can do their own troubleshooting.
But using those tools on a company pc is risky because as we all know using 3rd party software that came over usb or so is all a company need to kick your a*s out the door
@@dummyload7803 BGInfo had been recommended by our lead citrix engineer. He got senior technical management to sign of on it. He got it to work on citrix virtual sessions.
for me, turning on the desktop, using the browser, printer and some other software without crashing is a feat. I always thought that Windows loaded too much unnecessary stuff. I was wrong... there are many more unnecessary things!
Thanks for the video!
Windows 11 has zoom built in. Press Window Key and the + key to zoom in. Then + and - to zoom in and out.
I've been using Sysinternals since the 90s. Mark Russinovich was a windows God to young system engineer me back then.
Thank you! It was really easy to understand. I'll even send this to my friend who need some win os help. I'm about to follow
Hi Leila, I like sysinternals too, and I am a longterm user.
My favourite utility is ShareX which does screen capture - image, GIFs and OCR. I have a multibutton mouse and one mode is permanently set to ShareX so when watching something, I can quickly capture it.
Please more tools like these
Amazing video. Thank you!!
That was very informative. I will have to get that. It is the sort of thing that only soft ware engineers have.
I like your windows content and the way you guide us through. Thank you for your professional hard work Lei.
Wow most of these windows tools I actually need because I've been looking for tools like these. Great video instruction that's a sub from me. 😊
Glad to have you aboard!
I have Xero Linux installed on an old PC with an 8 core processor and 8 gigs of ram...
I did one update after I first installed the operating system...
That computer is not only fast, it's never produced one single error either in 6 months..
Xero Linux is FREE and so are all the programs and apps...
Run this from a flash drive or install a virtual machine and run it as a guest operating system inside of Windows...
Very useful
thanks a bunch!!!!
OMG ... GULP!!! ... 😮😮😮 ... Utilities??? ... an instant migraine! ... about two minutes into this video I was nauseous and dizzy ... I got the same feeling Indiana Jones did in 'Raiders of the Lost Arc' when he was lowered into the snake pit ... 😣😣😣 ... "Why did it have to be 'Utilities'???"
But I have full faith in Prof Leila ... and her enthusiasm about 'Sysinternals' will give me courage as I get lowered into the 'Utilities Pit' (my palms are already sweaty). But once there I will quite likely will find a nugget to use ... and then another ... and another. Which is why 'Thursdays With Leila' is so important.
Thank you ... thank you ... thank you .... 😍😍😍
Oh, the snake pit. Sorry for bringing up such bad feelings 😊 But I'm told, sometimes we have to get out of our comfort zone. So thank you for accompanying me down this path 🙏
Thanks Leila, for letting us know such useful features
My pleasure 😊
I have shared the vedio to my family members for try. They will easily understand tbe procedures than me. After getting their report, I have to try. OK. Thank you very much for this efforts.
My fav. tools are Total Commander AND Listary Pro
Shoutout for the First Contact poster!
Powertoys are also a must-have :)
Absolutely!
@@LeilaGharani So wish the two could exist as one. Powertoys and SysInternals.
Wow... This is an excellent tutorial of sooo cool tools...👍👍👌👌Good for a system/ network admins or those who want to be.
Thank you for your interesting and useful videos!!
Very useful utilities...
Nicely done!
The first tool Zoom It has it all I need, although, I watched teh video till end. The rest were little technical. Thanks a ton Leila :)
Great to hear!
Wow, this will assist so much.
I’ll be using this for Auto Run.
Hello Leila, Thank You for the refresher video. I have been using some of the tools since the early releases. What tool do you use to get the Mouse to right-click the icon on the video to demonstrate the tutorial?
Amazing!! Thank you!
Very valuable video 👍 thank you
Super informative...Thanks a lot. Any suggestion for a tool to get uptime of list of servers?
Thank you so much leila ... this is so amazing and highly recommend, thank you! once again .
Thanks, my dear! Hugs from Brazil!
Awesome video, please make a new one with more tools.
Thanks, we'll add it to our list.
Very good and useful information
Merci Leila !
SDelete is one of my favorite utilities!
Thanks for this video and helpful for trouble shot some PC and laptop
I believe that it is high time someone said something very obvious but somehow avoided it. I am a member of the Baby Boomer generation, and we were thought to acknowledge the beauty around us and to have the freedom to vocalize it. So here goes. Dear Leila, your videos are not only interesting and educational, but your beauty makes them even more attractive to watch. Cheers!
Thank you!☺
Wow 😳 really important video ❤️
This is so cool. keep up the great work!
Thank you! Will do!
Totally awesome! Thanks for the clear tutorial.
YEARS ago I think I was part of a group using the beta version of Autoruns. It was handy for a quicker boot time and identifying unintentional/ poorly prioritised boot programs.
It worked well but after the trial access was limited, then dropped off completely.
Now that I’m older Zoomit looks just as useful. Thanks!
TreeSize is pretty useful(and free), it make it so easy to find big file when you need to do some cleaning
Good to know!
Thank you!!
Nice post, Thank you Leila!
Nuts, I was hoping to learn something new hahaha... sysinternals is fundamental for any Windows sys admin.
Hello, im always following your videos, but just a little sugestion if you mind, can you create a video that give us a tips about microsoft default apps that actually not important and safe to uninstall without affecting the whole system, because i think there are to many apps which is i'm not sure if it is important or not. Just sharing 🤗🤗
Good video. Mostly above my pay grade but good to know
Great video!
Thanks for nice information!!! On Windows 11 Store it's available as an app. Is it having all the similar functions?
Great video! Awesome!
Appreciate you!!
Thank you very much Leila
Extraordinary, you are very gracious for sharing such advanced tools. Thank you so much, even though, it's definitely required learning for me... 😂🥰🌹
Very much helpful
Very informative Thanks! 👍👍👍